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Hebrews 13:1-16

Service Well-Pleasing to God

13Let mutual love continue.
2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
3Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.*4Let marriage be held in honour by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
5Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.
6So we can say with confidence,The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.What can anyone do to me?

7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings; for it is well for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food,* which have not benefited those who observe them.
10We have an altar from which those who officiate in the tent* have no right to eat.
11For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
12Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the city gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.
13Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.
14For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
15Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
16Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.